Negroponte to be Intelligence Chief

[jbour13]

First post, take it easy on me. But here's my .02: Negroponte has never held a collector position any intel organization, so he lacks rapport with that part of the community. Now for the other side of the coin, he does have the inherent skills of dealing with bureaucratic BS and with that kind of background it may foster some hope of cohesion and intel sharing. Hope is the key word.

The SECDEF has already made plans to create a DoD level intel command. He wants it to be a 4 star post to compete with the civilian side.

I work for an intel organization and state needs to stay indoors and leave the collection up to us and the shooting and nation building to the green hats.

This should sum it up. A diplomat is a person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

[Roguish Lawyer]

jbour:

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[NousDefionsDoc]

National Intelligence Director Names Key Staff John Negroponte Also Defining Role In Managing Intelligence Communities

WASHINGTON -- Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte has picked his key staff members and begun to design the role he and his new organization will play in managing the 15 agencies that make up the nation's intelligence community.

One visible first step was Negroponte's taking over, starting last week, as the top-ranking intelligence official sitting in on President Bush's morning national security briefing, replacing CIA Director Porter Goss. Another was choosing to locate temporarily his headquarters and staff, which will ultimately grow to include 500 to 700 people, away from the CIA's Langley, Va., campus in a new Defense Intelligence Agency building at Bolling Air Force Base.

Negroponte and his principal deputy director, Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, have decided on an organizational structure and turned to the State Department and the CIA for four of their top five aides. Congress created Negroponte's position last year as part of a reorganization to integrate and coordinate efforts of the CIA and intelligence agencies at the Pentagon, State Department, Energy Department and the FBI.

Thomas Fingar, head of State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, will become Negroponte's deputy director for analysis and chairman of the National Intelligence Council, officials said Friday.

The intelligence reorganization legislation gives Fingar responsibility and authority for setting standards and coordinating objectives for U.S.
intelligence efforts, although it leaves the analysts at their respective agencies with the goal of allowing them to present independent views. Fingar will also have what a senior intelligence official involved in the process described to reporters Friday as "governance" over the President's Daily Brief, the summary of most important items given to Bush daily.

"This is an evolving process," the senior intelligence official told reporters who attended the briefing under an agreement they would not reveal his name. "We are moving from chalk to paper," he said, adding that should indicate things were far from final.

The one deputy director position that remains unfilled is a novel one, described by the senior official as "customer service." This person's role is to ensure the president and his senior policymakers, along with the military and homeland security officials, are having their intelligence needs filled. The agency is also setting up a 24-hour watch to keep Negroponte and Hayden informed of sudden changes in intelligence.

What a goat rope....